Reform – Re-form – Reformation Every day a new day. Every day a new opportunity. Every day a new chance. Every day a new choice – old or new? As we awake, come to consciousness each morning, and begin to become aware of our selves, both in an inner and an outer form, if we … Continue reading Every Day a New Beginning
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Spiritual Autobiography: 6 (Beyond India – the Path continues)
“Remote, Remoter, Remotest! (But first some ‘preliminaries!)” After several years of refusing to leave Adelaide because I needed to be available to my two oldest children, I suddenly found myself qualified to teach, and, along with Dana, being offered positions in a remote school in the Western Desert country of the Northern Territory. The school … Continue reading Spiritual Autobiography: 6 (Beyond India – the Path continues)
From Light to Darkness: Recapitulating the Fall
When we recapitulate “The Fall” we learn what is and what isn’t True/true. According to Simnani (in Laleh Bakhtiar, ‘Sufi: Expressions of the Mystic Quest’, pp96-7, Thames and Hudson, UK, 1997) there is an arc of descent which has its mirror in the arc of ascent. The former is the descent through light into Manifestation … Continue reading From Light to Darkness: Recapitulating the Fall
Time and Its Opposite: A Companion Piece
Hubris and Humility The problem with hubris is that one is often, perhaps always, unaware in the acts which disclose its presence! This morning I finished writing a piece (Blogged as “Time and Its Opposite” - todays date) which I felt well conveyed elements of something that has troubled me for a very long time … Continue reading Time and Its Opposite: A Companion Piece
Time and Its Opposite?
The Folly of Misuse Time does not have an ‘opposite,’ but, then again, ‘time’ itself is a fantasy, a human construct imagined into existence by the fertile human mind to serve a purpose. Why then do mystics and other such constantly contrast time and timeless, as if they were opposites in some form? One finds … Continue reading Time and Its Opposite?
Sufism and Secrecy: Why do You Speak Thus?
Who hath ears to hear, let him hear And the disciples came and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? And he answered and said unto them, because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given… Therefore I speak … Continue reading Sufism and Secrecy: Why do You Speak Thus?
Spiritual Autobiography 5: (Beyond India)
India had one last gift to give me before I returned home to Australia via Hong Kong: Pneumonia! I had been prepared for it by the wonderful steam engine journey from Jaipur to Jaisalmer, head out the window getting lungfuls of thick sooty smoke as we raced across the desert. I should have known better … Continue reading Spiritual Autobiography 5: (Beyond India)
Spiritual Autobiography (Beyond India): By Way of an Apology!
The Spiritual Autobiography has stalled (like me of late!). Part of the problem is I am writing it on the computer, and that makes it difficult because it is not always where I am. Another part of the problem is because it covers so many years and therefore ‘life-events’ which in themselves are so important … Continue reading Spiritual Autobiography (Beyond India): By Way of an Apology!
Darkness and Light
Two vortices, one, roaring, black, like the recent images of ‘Black Holes’ gobbling up all that comes close, this one rotating left to right ((clockwise), the certainty of death when one inevitably reached the roaring black hole at the centre to which one was being drawn (by ‘time’). The other, like the colour and consistency … Continue reading Darkness and Light
“Being Without End”
It’s a beautiful autumn day here in the Antipodes. The sky a great dome of the kind of clear blue that fits perfectly the idea of ‘blue sky days’ in the holiday brochures! Matty, the little black four-legged friend, who sits outside waiting for someone to emerge with those tasty extras that make life worthwhile, … Continue reading “Being Without End”
Tracks in a Pathless Land 